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Influence of landscape connectivity on newt’s response to a warmer climate
Climate change and habitat fragmentation exert considerable pressures on biodiversity. The spatial distribution of microclimatic refuges in the landscape can influence species responses to warming climates.
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Bottom-up and top-down control of dispersal across major organismal groups
Ecology and evolution unfold in spatially structured communities, where dispersal links dynamics across scales. Because dispersal is multicausal, identifying general drivers remains challenging. In a coordinat...
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Gene flow favours local adaptation under habitat choice in ciliate microcosms
Local adaptation is assumed to occur under limited gene flow. However, habitat-matching theory predicts dispersal should favour rather than hinder local adaptation when individuals selectively disperse towards...
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Spatial genetic structure of Lissotriton helveticus L. following the restoration of a forest ponds network
Preserving amphibian genetic diversity through ecological restoration and conservation actions is a major challenge since their populations are declining worldwide. We studied the genetic diversity and spatial...
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Open AccessShort Physical Performance Battery and all-cause mortality: systematic review and meta-analysis
The Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB) is a well-established tool to assess lower extremity physical performance status. Its predictive ability for all-cause mortality has been sparsely reported, but wi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
SEAMPAT
The transitions across different health care settings, in particular home and hospital, may be critical regarding the continuity of patient’s medication. Some of the medication discrepancies occurring during t...
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Social Information in Cooperation and Dispersal in Tetrahymena
Most organisms are able to use social information to adjust key behaviours in their lifecycle including dispersal and cooperation. Ciliate microcosms provide a highly powerful tool to study the role of biocomm...
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Habitat matching and spatial heterogeneity of phenotypes: implications for metapopulation and metacommunity functioning
Spatial heterogeneity in the distribution of phenotypes among populations is of major importance for species evolution and ecosystem functioning. Dispersal has long been assumed to homogenise populations in s...
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Open AccessDistinguishing migration from isolation using genes with intragenic recombination: detecting introgression in the Drosophila simulans species complex
Determining the presence or absence of gene flow between populations is the target of some statistical methods in population genetics. Until recently, these methods either avoided the use of recombining genes,...
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Isolation and characterization of 15 microsatellite loci in the specialist butterfly Boloria eunomia
Boloria eunomia is a boreo-montane butterfly species suffering from habitat loss and isolation in the relictual part of its distribution range. Small populations persist in habitats scattered on ...
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Open AccessThe glomerular filtration rate estimated by new and old equations as a predictor of important outcomes in elderly patients
The prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) increases with age, and new glomerular filtration rate-estimating equations have recently been validated. The epidemiology of CKD in older individuals and the rel...
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Significance of serum immune markers in identification of global functional impairment in the oldest old: cross-sectional results from the BELFRAIL study
The large burden and coexistence of physical disability, cognitive impairment, and depression in the oldest old makes summary markers of global functioning of great value, allowing for risk stratification. Inf...
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The Metatron: an experimental system to study dispersal and metaecosystems for terrestrial organisms
A flexible, environmentally controlled experimental setup for the study of terrestrial animal dispersal is reported. Its unprecedented scale should enable studies in spatial ecology and permit tests of conserv...
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Microsatellite variation suggests a recent fine-scale population structure of Drosophila sechellia, a species endemic of the Seychelles archipelago
Drosophila sechellia is closely related to the cosmopolitan and widespread model species, D. simulans. This species, endemic to the Seychelles archipelago, is specialized on the fruits of...
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Open AccessSelection on the wing in Heliconius butterflies
To what extent population structure favours the establishment of new phenotypes within a species remains a fundamental question in evolutionary studies. By reducing gene flow, habitat fragmentation is a major ...
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Open AccessThe BELFRAIL (BFC80+) study: a population-based prospective cohort study of the very elderly in Belgium
In coming decades the proportion of very elderly people living in the Western world will dramatically increase. This forthcoming "grey epidemic" will lead to an explosion of chronic diseases. In order to antic...
